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Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
This isn’t a painting. It’s not from a movie. It’s not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light… Continue reading
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What’s Worth Learning: How Outdated Curricula are Failing America’s Students
Cut through the hype and the ideology-driven political rhetoric and it’s clear that, decade after decade, institutional performance nationwide changes little. Even schools considered models and pointed to with pride—upscale, beautiful, well-staffed, shipping high percentages of their graduates off to… Continue reading
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More response to the New York Times’ Latest Irritating Analysis of the Hipster
Another reaction to Wampole’s diagnosis of overly tragic irony among Millenials that nicely bookends the other response I posted yestereve. If the prototypical highly educated, white, 20-something city dweller is a skinny dude in a vintage Stryper T-shirt with elaborate… Continue reading
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a millenial response to being accused of “irony”
I posted Christy Wampole’s piece on Millenials and the great issue she takes with them: they are too ironic. I argued that I thought she was missing something, but I did not go too deeply into why. This wonderful response… Continue reading
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How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com
Thanks to Andrew J. Taggart for pointing out this entry to the Stone blog at NYTimes.com. A good read. Not sure I agree with the whole premise. In my view, while Millenials do present a lot of irony (at least… Continue reading
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